After this commit, SolveSpace always uses UTF-8 strings internally
(represented as char* and std::string) on every OS, for everything:
UI labels, paths and user input. OS X always uses UTF-8; on Windows,
strings are converted at boundary; and on Linux/BSD/etc SolveSpace
refuses to start unless the current locale is UTF-8. This will
negatively affect literally no one.
This commit does not bring forth any user-visible improvement yet;
in order to correctly handle Unicode in filenames, it is still
necessary to change the fopen calls to _wfopen on Windows.
After this change, SolveSpace does not contain nonfree assets.
Additionally, Perl is not required for the build.
Note that in the US, case law suggests that copyright does
not apply to bitmap fonts:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/misc/Bitmap_Fonts_and_Copyright
Nevertheless, it was prudent to replace the asset with something
that is unambiguously free.
As a side effect, zlib and libpng are now git submodules,
based on their respective official git repositories.
This is necessary, because MinGW has a different ABI and
it cannot use the prebuilt binaries built by MSVC.
The submodules are also used for Windows, for several reasons:
* to allow 64-bit builds;
* to allow using newer MSVC, which doesn't like the prebuilt
libraries;
* to keep the libraries updated.
Apparently pbuffers are also a deprecated and unportable
way of offscreen rendering. They're not supported by
Chromium OpenGL implementation, which is what 3D-accelerated
VirtualBox uses.
This would also help a future OS X port.
In principle, GTK3 is the way forward, and GTK2 is officially
deprecated, though still maintained. In practice however, GTK3
is often unbearably buggy; e.g. on my system, combo boxes
don't ever roll up in GTK3 windows. So I have added support
for both.
This required a few minor changes to the core, namely:
* GTK wants to know beforehand whether a menu item is a check
menu item or a regular one.
* GTK doesn't give us an easy way to execute something after
any event is processed, so an explicit idle timer is added.
This is a no-op on Win32.
* A few function signatures were const'ed, since GTK expects
immutable strings when converting to Glib::ustring.
whitequark